| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 258 pages ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
"When Frank Huyler was just starting out in the medical profession in the late 1990s, he published a collection of medical vignettes detailing his encounters in the highly charged world of an emergency room. The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic, praised for Huyler's poetic prose and his ability to probe beneath the surface of his patient encounters-revealing the hard truths of life in the medical field. Now, over twenty years later, Huyler delivers another dispatch from the emergency room trenches, this time from the perspective of the middle of his medical career. With years passed and experience gained, Huyler is able to offer a fuller and more nuanced portrait of what remains an astonishing, affirming, yet increasingly difficult and rapidly changing profession. White Hot Light offers-with narrative power and haunting prose-and unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society and its values at its most vulnerable"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The boy -- Hail -- War -- The good son -- The wedding party -- Jehovah -- The motorcycle -- Mercy -- The gun show -- A visitor -- The gesture -- The story of the cherry picker -- The horse -- The sunflower -- The snowstorm -- Vertigo -- The bicycle -- The Redeemers -- The dwarf -- The machine -- The collected works of Winston Begay -- Women, at night -- Lisa made us wait -- Glory -- The teacher -- The lesson -- The boy in the river -- The sleeper -- The mirror -- Time. |
| Subject |
Huyler, Frank, 1964-
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Emergency physicians -- New Mexico -- Biography.
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Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Popular works.
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| Genre |
Personal Narrative.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Essays.
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| Added Title |
White hot light : 25 years in emergency medicine |
| ISBN |
9780062937339 (paperback) : $16.99 |
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0062937332 (paperback) |
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